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Workshop 03A - Global
CyberBridges: A Model Global
Collaboration Infrastructure for
E-Science Between the United
States and International
Partners
Educause Learning Initiative (ELI)
Annual Meeting—Orlando, FL
Date: January 20, 2009
Presentation Agenda
• GCB Program Overview
• U.S. & Global Research & Education Networks Program
Support
• AMPATH International Exchange Point in Miami
• General Applications
• GCB Research Projects & Publications
• Collaborative Tools; Learning EVO
• Conclusion
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Who’s Who?
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Investigators
-Heidi Alvarez, PI, Director of the Center for Internet
Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA) at FIU
- Tom DeFanti, Co-PI (Calit2 at UCSD)
-Julio Ibarra, Co-PI, Executive Director of CIARA
-Kuldeep Kumar, Co-PI, Professor
-S. Masoud Sadjadi, Co-PI, Assistant Professor of SCIS
External Assessment Committee
- Paul Avery, Professor of Physics, University of Florida
- Hugh Gladwin, Director of the Institute for Public Opinion Research
- Thomas Greene, Senior Research Fellow / Director of the Computer
Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT
- Jane Klobus, Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Dondena Centre
for Social Research, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy & Professorial
Fellow, Graduate School of Management, University of Western Australia
What is Global CyberBridges?
Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement, and
Mentoring for Our 21st Century Workforce (CI-TEAM)
• National Science Foundation Program Solicitation
•http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf0654
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Three year award (Oct. 2006 - Dec. 2009) for $765,000 total to
CIARA at FIU
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The program expands on CyberBridges, which was initiated in 2005
to help FIU scientists and engineers advance their research through
cyberinfrastructure (CI).
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Global CyberBridges Benefits
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Brings together graduate students & faculty from various disciplines
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Offers greater understanding of R&E CI
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Increases opportunity for cross-disciplinary R&E
Increases scientists’ rate of discovery
 Creates a CI empowered workforce.
 Research fellowship stipend of $5,000 total for Spring / Summer
2009
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be combined with other tuition waivers & stipends
•May be split between 2 fellows working on a research project together
Activities Are on a Yearly Cycle; For Example
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1st Semester: Feb. to May 2009
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Participating in initial interviews
Attending the GCB training
Learning about HPC and how to use it
Team building
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Brainstorming and planning for the project with your team
Weekly group meeting (EVO or Skype for video conferencing)
Preparing a lecture and delivering it in the class
2nd Semester: June to Nov. 2009
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Working on the project
Running experiments
Attending weekly meetings
Writing a technical paper targeted to a conference
Participating in final interviews
Outcomes & Evaluation
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A new generation of scientists & engineers
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Short Term Outcome Measurement:
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Capable of fully integrating CI into the whole educational,
professional, and creative process of their diverse disciplines.
Proposed and realized timeline for implementing the activities
Longer term Outcome Measurements:
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Publication, presentation, and other metrics determined by the
outside experts to be appropriate for the research activities
Fellowship Requirements Year 3 of 3
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Course begins in Spring 2009 at end of February
– Advanced Networking
– Grids/Distributed Computing
– Virtual Teams
– Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE)
Course Continues through Summer 2009
– Students and faculty will collaborate on a paper based on the
research
– Research results to be published & presented at a conference
– Student’s travel expenses covered
• Attendance at major conference in Fall 09 or Spring 10
– Usually SuperComputing to present research findings
Fellowship Qualifications
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Candidates must be on a research path that can be augmented by
CI
Open to graduate students in science or engineering
– PhD students preferred
Some programming background desired
– C or C++ preferred, JAVA or Fortran OK
How to Apply
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Submit a 1 page proposal
- Describe a problem in your area of research
- Provide a hypothesis on how the use of CI would benefit the
research process.
Attach a one-page bio/CV
- Show any networking, grid, or related CI experience
Submit all documents to [email protected]
- Faculty advisor must indicate support via letter of support
Due by November 14th, 2008
Selection announced by December 1st, 2008
Projects in 2006
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Unsupervised Pattern Discovery in Protein Structures
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Modeling Biological Tissue Scaffolds in Three Dimensions
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Biomedical Engineering
Interplay between Random Matrix Theory and Quantum
Field
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Computer Science & Bioinformatics
Physics
Functionalities of a specific enzyme for certain reactions
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Chemistry/Biochemistry
Projects in 2007
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Grid Enablement of Hurricane Simulation Application
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On Demand Weather Forecast Visualization via Efficient
Resource Utilization in Grid Computing
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Visualization
Computational Modeling & Simulation of Biodegradable
Starch based polymer composites
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Earth Sciences
Computational Chemistry
Collaboration Platform
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e-Science and e-Society
Projects in 2008
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The Development of Collaborative Platform Based on
SAGE
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Innovative Grid-Enable Multiple-Scale Hurricane Modeling
System
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Earth Sciences
Finding Repeat Structures in Genomic Sequences
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Computer Science - Visualization
Computer Science – Bioinformatics
A Distributed Multimedia Data Management over the Grid
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Computer Science – Multimedia
Publications
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Selim Kalayci, Onyeka Ezenwoye, Balaji Viswanathan, Gargi Dasgupta, S. Masoud Sadjadi, and Liana Fong. Design and
implementation of a fault tolerant job flow manager using job flow patterns and recovery policies. In Proceedings of the 6th
International Conference on Service Oriented Computing ( ICSOC'08), Sydney, Australia, December 2008. Accepted for
publication (acceptance rate 20.4%).
Hector A. Duran Limon, S. Masoud Sadjadi, et al. Grid enablement and resource usage prediction of weather research
and forecasting. In Proceedings of the Collaborative and Grid Computing Technologies Workshop, Cancun, Mexico, April
2008.
Gargi Dasgupta1, Onyeka Ezenwoye, Liana Fong, Selim Kalayci, S. Masoud Sadjadi, and Balaji Viswanathan. Design of a
fault-tolerant job-flow manager for grid environments using standard technologies, job-flow patterns, and a
transparent proxy. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
(SEKE'2008), San Francisco Bay, USA, July 2008.
Chi Zhang, Bin Liu, Xun Su, Heidi Alvarez, and Julio Ibarra. Integrating heterogeneous network monitoring data. In
Telecommunication Systems, February, 2008, DOI 10.1007/s11235-008-9073-5.
Khalid Saleem, S. Masoud Sadjadi, and Shu-Ching Chen. Towards a self-configurable weather research and forecasting
system. In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-2008), Chicago, IL, June
2008. (38% acceptance rate).
Yanbin Liu, S. Masoud Sadjadi, Liana Fong, Ivan Rodero, David Villegas, Selim Kalayci, Norman Bobroff, and Juan Carlos
Martinez. Enabling autonomic meta-scheduling in grid environments. In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International
Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-2008), Chicago, IL, June 2008. (38% acceptance rate).
Gargi Dasgupta, Onyeka Ezenwoye, Liana Fong, Selim Kalayci, S. Masoud Sadjadi, and Balaji Viswanathan. Runtime faulthandling for job-flow management in grid environments. In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on
Autonomic Computing (ICAC-2008), Chicago, IL, June 2008. (38% acceptance rate).
Norman Bobroff, Liana Fong, Selim Kalayci, Yanbin Liu, Juan Carlos Martinez, Ivan Rodero, S. Masoud Sadjadi, and David
Villegas. Enabling interoperability among meta-schedulers. In Proceedings of 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster
Computing and the Grid (CCGrid-2008), Lyon, France, 2008.
Publications
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S. Masoud Sadjadi, Shu Shimizu, Javier Figueroa, Raju Rangaswami, Javier Delgado, Hector Duran, and Xabriel Collazo. A
modeling approach for estimating execution time of long-running scientific applications. In Proceedings of the 22nd
IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-2008), the Fifth High-Performance Grid Computing
Workshop (HPGC-2008), Miami, Florida, April 2008.
S. Masoud Sadjadi, Liana Fong, Rosa M. Badia, Javier Figueroa, Javier Delgado, Xabriel J. Collazo-Mojica, Khalid Saleem,
Raju Rangaswami, Shu Shimizu, Hector A. Duran Limon, Pat Welsh, Sandeep Pattnaik, Anthony Praino, David Villegas, Selim
Kalayci, Gargi Dasgupta, Onyeka Ezenwoye, Juan Carlos Martinez, Ivan Rodero, Shuyi Chen, Javier Muñoz, Diego Lopez,
Julita Corbalan, Hugh Willoughby, Michael McFail, Christine Lisetti, and Malek Adjouadi. Transparent grid enablement of
weather research and forecasting. In Proceedings of the Mardi Gras Conference 2008 - Workshop on Grid-Enabling
Applications, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, January 2008.
S. Masoud Sadjadi, Selim Kalayci, and Yi Deng. A self-configuring communication virtual machine. In Proceedings of the
2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC-08), Sanya, China, April 2008. (accepted for
publication.).
Xing Hang, David Villegas Castillo, S. Masoud Sadjadi, and Heidi Alvarez. Formative assessment of the effectiveness of
collaboration in gcb. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2007), Merrillville,
Indiana, USA, October 2007.
Heidi L. Alvarez, David Chatfield, Donald A. Cox, Eric Crumpler, Cassian D’Cunha, Ronald Gutierrez, Julio Ibarra, Eric
Johnson, Kuldeep Kumar, Tom Milledge, Giri Narasimhan, Rajamani S. Narayanan, Alejandro de la Puente, S. Masoud Sadjadi,
and Chi Zhang. Cyberbridges: A model collaboration infrastructure for e-Science. In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE
International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'07), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2007. (acceptance rate
33.5%).
S. Masoud Sadjadi, Javier Muñoz, Diego Lopez, Javier Figueroa, Xabriel J. Collazo-Mojica, Alex Orta, Michael McFailand,
David Villegas, Rosa Badia, Pat Welsh, Raju Rangaswami, Shu Shimizu, and Hector A. Duran Limon. Transparent grid
enablement of WRF using a profiling, code inspection, and modeling approach. In Poster Presented in the 5th Latin
American Grid (LA Grid) Summit, The IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, U.S.A., September 2007.
Publications
15. S. Masoud Sadjadi, Steve Luis, Khalid Saleem, Donald Llopis, Javier Munoz, Diego Lopez, Javier Figueroa, David Villegas
Castillo, Selim Kalayci, Pat Welsh, Shu-Ching Chen, Anthony Praino, and Hugh Willoughby. The latin american (la) grid
weather research and forecast (WRF) portal. In Poster Presented in the 5th Latin American Grid (LA Grid) Summit, The IBM
T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, U.S.A., September 2007.
16. Liana Fong, S. Masoud Sadjadi, Yanbin Liu, Ivan Rodero, David Villegas, Selim Kalayci, Norman Bobrof, and Julita Corbalan.
The LA Grid meta-scheduling project. In Poster Presented in the 5th Latin American Grid (LA Grid) Summit, The IBM T.J.
Watson Research Center, NY, U.S.A., September 2007.
17. Gargi B Dasgupta, Liana Fong, S. Masoud Sadjadi, Onyeka Ezenwoye, Balaji Viswanathan, Selim Kalayci, David Villegas
Castillo, and Norman Bobroff. Fault-tolerant job-flow management in grid environment. In Poster Presented in the 5th Latin
American Grid (LA Grid) Summit, The IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, U.S.A., September 2007.
18. S. Masoud Sadjadi, David Villegas, Javier Munoz, Diego Lopez, Alex Orta, Michael McFail, Xabriel J. Collazo-Mojica, and Javier
Figueroa. Finding an appropriate profiler for the weather research and forecasting code. Technical Report FIU-SCIS2007-09-03, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL
33199, August 2007.
19. S. Masoud Sadjadi, Javier Munoz, Diego Lopez, David Villegas, Javier Figueroa, Xabriel J. Collazo-Mojica, Michael McFail, and
Alex Orta. Weather research and forecasting model 2.2 documentation: A step-by-step guide of a model run. Technical
Report FIU-SCIS-2007-09-02, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th
St., Miami, FL 33199, August 2007.
20. Onyeka Ezenwoye, S. Masoud Sadjadi, Ariel Carey, and Michael Robinson. Grid service composition in bpel for scientific
applications. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed
Applications (GADA'07), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, November 2007. (accepted for publication.).
Research & Education Networks Overview
• What are Research and Education Networks
and why?
• What relevance do they have to developing
Global CyberBridges?
• How are they created and where do they exist?
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What are National Research and Education
Networks (NRENs)?
• Interconnect a country’s higher education
institutions
– and often government research institutions, primary
and secondary schools, libraries, hospitals,
museums, other public institutions
• Provide a dedicated network
– Separate from the commercial Internet
– With dedicated connections to other countries’
NRENs
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Factors motivating High Performance
Networks
• Network vs. computer performance
– Computer speed doubles every 18 months
– Network speed doubles every 9 months
– Difference = order of magnitude per 5 years
• 1986 to 2000
– Computers: x 500
– Networks: x 340,000
• 2001 to 2010
– Computers: x 60
– Networks: x 40,800
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Adapted from Shawn
McKee U of Michigan
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National Lambda Rail
NLR Infrastructure
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International Research & Education
Network connections
• The NSF IRNC program provides network connections linking
U.S. research networks with peer networks in other parts of
the world to support science and engineering research and
education applications
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TransPAC2 (U.S. - Japan and beyond)
GLORIAD (U.S. - China, Russia, Korea)
Translight/PacificWave (U.S. - Australia)
TransLight/StarLight (U.S. - Europe)
WHREN-LILA (U.S. - Latin America)
• The GLIF map shows links and networks that offer their
bandwidth capacity for use by international research
communities for applications-driven and computer-system
experiments
• http://www.glif.is
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WHREN-LILA
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5-year NSF Cooperative Agreement
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Florida International University (IRNC awardee)
Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC)
Project support from the Academic Network of Sao Paulo (award #2003/13708-0)
CLARA, Latin America
CUDI, Mexico
RNP, Brazil
REUNA, Chile
Links Interconnecting Latin America (LILA) aims to Improve connectivity in
the Americas through the establishment of new inter-regional links
Western-Hemisphere Research and Education Networks (WHREN) serves
as a coordinating body whose aim is to leverage participants’ network
resources to foster collaborative research and advance education
throughout the Western Hemisphere
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Sharing scarce
educational, research
resources.
Access to scientific
instruments for research,
teaching and learning
Expensive resources can
be shared between
institutions, across
distance
• Laboratory instruments
• Computers
• Databases
• Library materials
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Why not the commercial Internet?
• Access to the commercial Internet for education and
research institutions is important
– NRENs can pool demand, provide access to the commercial
Internet at ‘bulk buy’ rates
• Commercial Internet goal is to make money
– Serve many with common-denominator capabilities
– Optimize capacity for profit
• NRENs who control and build their own network:
– Optimize capacity (bandwidth utilization), topology (latency),
services for needs of research, teaching, learning
– Deploy capabilities the commercial Internet hasn’t yet deployed
or isn’t interested in deploying
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International Connectivity Pieces
1. US-based international exchange points
2. Circuits across oceans and northern,
southern borders
3. Infrastructure within other countries, regions
– Transit across partner networks
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US-based international exchange points
• Based around “coasts” of US
• Typically run by members of Internet2
community
• Provide fabric for interconnecting R&E
networks with presence in those geographic
areas
• StarLight, PacificWave, MAN LAN, AMPATH,
AtlanticWave
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Circuits across oceans and northern, southern borders
Infrastructure within other countries,
regions
• NRENs around the world
– Pre-existed Internet2
– Continuing to grow in number
• Regional (continental-scale) connectivity
between NRENs
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How are NRENs being used today?
• Astronomy
• Bio-sciences
• High Energy and Nuclear
Physics
• Earth observation,
environment
• Health Sciences
• Veterinary Medicine
• Surgery and clinical care
• Humanities
• Arts Performance
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Distributed computation
Virtual laboratories
Digital libraries
Distributed learning
Interactive digital video
and audio
• Remote instrument access
and manipulation
• Tele-immersion
• All of the above in
combination
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INTERNET2 NETWORK INTERNATIONAL REACH
EUROPE and MIDDLE EAST cont’d
ASIA and PACIFIC
Greece (GRNET)
Australia (AARNET)
Hungary (HUNGARNET)
China
AMERICAS
Iceland
(RHnet)
(CERNET,CSTNET,NSFCNET)
Argentina (RETINA)
Ireland (HEAnet)
Fiji (USP-SUVA)
Brazil (RNP2/ANSP)
Israel
(IUCC)
Hong Kong (HARNET)
Canada (CA*net)
Italy (GARR)
India (ERNET)
Chile (REUNA)
Jordan (JUNET)
Indonesia (ITB)
Colombia (RENATA)
Latvia
(LATNET)
Japan (SINET, WIDE, JGN2)
Costa Rica (CR2Net)
Lithuania (LITNET)
Korea (KOREN, KREONET2)
Ecuador (CEDIA)
Luxembourg
(RESTENA)
Malaysia (MYREN)
El Salvador (RAICES)
Macedonia (MARNET)
New Zealand (KAREN)
Guatemala (RAGIE)
Malta (Univ. Malta)
Philippines (PREGINET)
Mexico (Red-CUDI)
Netherlands
(SURFnet)
Russia (RBnet, RUNNET)
Panama (RedCyT)
Norway (UNINETT)
Singapore (SingAREN)
Peru (RAAP)
Palestinian
Territories
(Gov’t
Taiwan (TANet2, ASNet)
Uruguay (RAU2)
Computing Center)
Thailand (UNINET, ThaiSARN)
Venezuela (REACCIUN2)
Poland (PIONIER)
Vietnam (VINAREN)
EUROPE and MIDDLE EAST Portugal (RCTS2)
Albania (ASA/INIMA)
Qatar (Qatar FN)
MULTINATIONAL NETWORKS
Austria (ACOnet)
Romania (RoEduNet)
APAN
Belgium (BELNET)
Serbia-Montenegro (AMREJ, UoM/MREN)
GEANT2
Bosnia-Herzegovina (BIHARNET) Slovakia (SANET)
redCLARA
Bulgaria (ISTF)
Slovenia (ARNES)
Croatia (CARNet)
Spain (redIRIS)
Cyprus (CYNET)
AFRICA
CENTRAL ASIA
Sweden (SUNET)
Czech Republic (CESNET)
Switzerland (SWITCH)
Algeria (CERIST)
Armenia (ARENA)
Denmark (Forskningsnettet)
Syria (HIAST)
Egypt (EUN/ENSTINET)
Georgia (GRENA)
Estonia (EENet)
Ukraine (URAN)
Morocco (CNRST)
Kazakhstan (KAZRENA)
Finland (Funet)
United Kingdom (JANET)
South Africa (TENET)
Tajikistan (TARENA)
France (Renater)
Turkey (ULAKBYM)
Tunisia (RFR)
Uzbekistan (UZSCI)
Germany (G-WIN)
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Operated by the Center for Internet Augmented
Research and Assessment (CIARA) at Florida
International University
Miami, FL U.S.A
Julio Ibarra, AMPATH Principal Investigator / CIARA Exec.
Director
Heidi Alvarez, Director CIARA
Chip Cox, AMPATH Chief Operating Officer
Center
for Internet
Augmented
Research
CIARA
was created
in 2003 as a State
of Florida Type
II Research
Center at FIU. CIARA services institutional collaborators in the U.S.
and internationally as a bridge linking researchers and educators with
the infrastructure and knowledge they need to perform their work.
and Assessment (CIARA)
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AMPATH International Exchange Point
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AMPATH provides Global CyberBridges fellows and faculty with
connectivity to R&E computational grid resources at institutions and
laboratories around the world
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Connectors are U.S. and international research and education networks
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Located at the NAP of the Americas in Miami
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Ethernet and ATM peering fabrics
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Connection types are
– 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps and 10Gbps Ethernet
– 45 Mbps, 155 Mbps and 622 Mbps ATM
– 155 Mbps, 622 Mbps 2.5 and 10 Gbps SDH
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http://www.ampath.net for more information
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Western Hemisphere Research and Education
Network – Links Interconnecting Latin America
• 2.5Gbps circuit + dark
fiber segment
• U.S. landings in Miami
and San Diego
• Latin America landing in
Sao Paulo, Tijuana and
Miami
• Interregional links improve
connectivity in the
Americas
• Fosters collaborative
research and advance
education throughout the
Western Hemisphere
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GCB Course: Grid Enablement of Scientific
Applications
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Dr. S. Masoud Sadjadi,
Computer Science
Time of class must be
coordinated with Chinese and
Brazilian collaborators
May be early in the morning
(7:30 – 10 am) TBD
Details on the course
curriculum will be presented by
Dr. Sadjadi
e-Science applications slides
follow…
http://www.chepreo.org
An integrated program of
research, network
infrastructure development,
and education and outreach at
one of the largest minority
schools in the US
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Supports Brazil’s and South America’s access to Tier2s and Tier1s in
the U.S. and to CERN
Collaboration with Florida State University (FSU), the University of
Florida (UF), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Leverages IRNC WHREN-LILA infrastructure to support data-intensive
science from High-Energy Physics and Astronomy communities
Collaborations with Open Science Grid, GridUNESP, Kyatera,
UltraLight and others to enable data intensive science in the western
hemisphere
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Electronic Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (eVLBI)
• Astronomers collect data about a
star from many different earth
based antennae and send the data
to a specialized computer for
analysis on a 24x7 basis.
– Previously via tape and truck
– Limited number of ‘campaigns’ per year
– Network may fundamentally change the
science
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3D Brain Map
• Provides insight into brain
functions in real time
– Very large multi-dimensional, multimodal, time-varying data sets
• Patient, supercomputer and
doctor do not need to be in the
same location– all data is
transferred over the network:
• Real time visualization will aid in
surgical planning and disease
diagnosis
Showcases:
• Real-time data gathering
and dynamic visualization
• GRID technologies
• End to end performance
optimizations
• Dynamic visualization
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Real-time collaboration
between students, teachers,
researchers, clinicians
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•Beyond videoconferencing:
pathologists share
images in real-time
requires high-quality
images
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Orthopedic Surgery
• International Society of
Orthopaedic Surgery and
Traumatology (SICOT)
• California Orthopaedic Research
Network (CORN)
– USC, Stanford, UCLA, UC San
Diego, and CENIC's CalREN
• Live surgery over Internet2
– Education of medical school
students
– Interactive 3-D virtual reality
imagery
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Music Master Classes
• Catering to the needs of
musicians
– High fidelity video and audio via
MPEG2
– Optimized for latency, audio/video
synchronization
• Connecting Oklahoma with the
New World Symphony in Miami,
Florida
– Removing physical distance as the
reason why a student and instructor
cannot interact
Showcases:
• Distance Teaching and
Learning
• Video (and audio) as
data
• Extending the reach of
resources
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GCB Overview
Conclusion;
Important Dates
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Submit a 1 page proposal by November 14th to
[email protected]
Advisory Committee Meets by November 29th
Announcement of fellowships by December 1st
Proposal Information
Summary
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1 Page
Submitted by student and faculty advisor
- Faculty letter of support required
Describe research interest and problem
How might CI augment the research?
Is there any multidisciplinary synergy?
Include qualifications including any previous programming
experience
Questions?
LambdaVision 100-Megapixel display
and SAGE (Scalable Adaptive Graphics
Environment) software developed by
the Electronic Visualization Laboratory
at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Major funding provided by NSF.
Email [email protected]
Website www.cyberbridges.net
Credits
 WHREN-LILA, AMPATH infrastructure, CHEPREO, Global
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CyberBridges, science application support, education,
outreach and community building efforts are made possible by
funding and support from:
National Science Foundation (NSF) awards OCI-0441095, MPS0312038, OISE-0549456, OCI-0537464, OCI 0636031, IIS 0646144,
OISE 0715489, OCI 0734173, OISE 0742675
Academic Network of Sao Paulo (award #2003/13708-0)
Florida International University
Latin American Research and Education community
The many national and international collaborators
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Thank You!
Heidi L. Alvarez, Ph.D.
Florida International University
Director, Center for Internet Augmented Research and
Assessment (CIARA)
[email protected]
www.ciara.fiu.edu
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